Musicals often want to show their audiences a good, escapist time – which may be one reason why so many refer to alcoholic drinks or matters involving spirits.

The difference, of course, is that while we should moderate our alcohol consumption, we should exercise no restraint whatsoever in our drinking in as much musical theater as we can.

So, for our 2013 Broadway University Mid-Term Exam, let’s give a toast to Broadway musicals that mention alcohol, however blatantly or obliquely, in one way or another. These could be in lyrics and lines that may or may not show up on original cast albums, but can be found in scripts.

Your impossible mission, should you care to accept it, is to identify both song and show for each of the 50 entries (and the bonus question, too). To make matters a bit easier, the shows are chronologically arranged, from 1940 through 2012.

All answers must be in my e-mailbox by Tuesday, Feb. 5 by 11:59 p.m. Send them to pfilichia@aol.com. And I hope the test doesn’t drive you to drink.

1. “I invited Johnny Walker, and Haig and Haig I asked twice."

2. “Behind the hill there's a busy little still where your Pappy's workin'.”

3. “We filled up and started to spin on scotch, rye, corn, straight alcohol."

4. “Entertaining vodka drinkers is a job they give to me.”

5. "After her, I met Calypso -- who was definitely a dipso."

6. “No Four Roses ad discloses lips like yours.”

7. "And I was drunk on love and cheap muscatel."

8. "With the lanterns glowing and the vino flowing and the good strong smell of mozzarella in the air."

9. “Where Kickapoo Joy Juice we make.”

10. "Alexander, a creme de cacao mixed with rum."

11. "I say first, medicinal wine from a teaspoon."

12. "Milk and beer and 7-Up and Drambuie."

13. “Fill the bowl to overflowing; raise your goblets high.”

14. “Should I quote you lines from Dante? Should I wine you on chianti? Are you gay?”

15. "I don't care for sherry. One cannot drink stout. And port is a wine I can well do without."

44. “With a drink that has umbrellas, and a novel by Jane Austen, being eyed by two young fellas who run marathons in Boston.”

45. "To fruits, to no absolutes, to Absolut."

46. "She's wasted!"

47. "This nice sincere Sancerre is French."

48. "No one glares when you do Jello shooters."

49. "Keep your eyeball on the highball."

50. “Devil’s brew! Satan’s nectar! Soon shall you be a specter.”

BONUS QUESTION:

"She sits at the Ritz with her splits of Mumms, but then she pines for some steins with her Village chums, but with a Schlitz in her mitts down at Fitzroy's bar, she thinks of the Ritz; oh, it's so schizo."